Atlantic water flow into the Arctic Ocean through the St. Anna Trough in the northern Kara Sea

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Dmitrenko, Igor A., Rudels, Bert, Kirillov, Sergey A., Aksenov, Yevgeny O., Lien, Vidar S., Ivanov, Vladimir V., Schauer, Ursula, Polyakov, Igor V., Coward, Andrew, Barber, David G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Kara Sea; St. Anna Trough; Fram Strait; Nansen; Nansen Basin
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511367/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511367/1/jgrc21331.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC010804

The Atlantic Water flow from the Barents and Kara seas to the Arctic Ocean through the St. Anna Trough (SAT) is conditioned by interaction between Fram Strait branch water circulating in the SAT and Barents Sea branch water—both of Atlantic origin. Here we present data from an oceanographic mooring...